{"product_id":"the-trade-in-the-living-luiz-felipe-de-alencastro-9781438469294","title":"The Trade in the Living: The Formation of Brazil in the South Atlantic, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMacro-level study of the South Atlantic throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries demonstrating how Brazil's emergence was built on the longest and most intense slave trade of the modern era.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seventeenth-century missionary and diplomat Father Antônio Vieira once observed that Brazil was nourished, animated, sustained, served, and conserved by the \"sad blood\" of the \"black and unfortunate souls\" imported from Angola. In \u003ci\u003eThe Trade in the Living\u003c\/i\u003e, Luiz Felipe de Alencastro demonstrates how the African slave trade was an essential element in the South Atlantic and in the ongoing cohesion of Portuguese America, while at the same time the concrete interests of Brazilian colonists, dependent on Angolan slaves, were often violently asserted in Africa, to ensure men and commodities continued to move back and forth across the Atlantic. In exposing this intricate and complementary relationship between two non-European continents, de Alencastro has fashioned a new and challenging examination of colonial Brazil, one that moves beyond its relationship with Portugal to discover a darker, hidden history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Luiz Felipe de Alencastro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1438469292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781438469294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 642\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2019","brand":"Luiz Felipe de Alencastro","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48622221132031,"sku":"9781438469294","price":104.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-trade-in-the-living-luiz-felipe-de-alencastro-9781438469294","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}